Commentaries:
Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)
Yea (alla). Confirmatory use as in II Corinthians 7:11, rather than adversative.
The answer of death (to apokrima tou qanatou) This late word from apokrinomai, to reply, occurs nowhere else in N.T., but is in Josephus, Polybius, inscriptions and papyri (Deissmann, Bible Studies, p. 257; Moulton and Milligan's Vocabulary), and always in the sense of decision or judgment rendered. But Vulgate renders it by responsum and that idea suits best here, unless Paul conceives God as rendering the decision of death.
We ourselves have had within ourselves (autoi en eautoiv esxhkamen). Regular perfect of exw, to have. And still have the vivid recollection of that experience. For this lively dramatic use of the present perfect indicative for a past experience see also esxhka in II Corinthians 2:13 (Moulton, Prolegomena, p. 143f.; Robertson, Grammar, p. 896f.).
That we should not trust in ourselves (ina mh pepoiqotev wmen ef eautoiv). A further purpose of God in affliction beyond that in verse II Corinthians 1:4. "This dreadful trial was sent to him in order to give him a precious spiritual lesson (II Corinthians 12:7-10)" (Robertson and Plummer). Note periphrastic perfect active subjunctive of peiqw, to persuade.
In (epi), upon, both ourselves and God.
Other Robertson's Word Pictures (NT) entries containing 2 Corinthians 1:9:
Acts 19:29
Acts 19:30
Acts 20:18
1 Corinthians 4:13
2 Corinthians 2:3
2 Corinthians 2:13
2 Corinthians 11:23
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